Mom, he's picking on me!
Category: Humor • Weblogs
Posted on: January 23, 2006 6:46 AM, by PZ Myers
Since Thursday, Wiley has been running a series of strips mocking bloggers. I'm beginning to feel opressed.
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My daughter made the same observation this morning but hey, if we can't laugh at ourselves...
Posted by: aa | January 23, 2006 7:10 AM
He got in a fight last year about internet cartoonists, IIRC. Just another old guy who doesn't understand this new medium. Which is a shame, because his comic strip is one of very few worth reading. The only such ones I'm aware of are:
Doonesbury
Opus
Foxtrot
Get Fuzzy (sometimes)
Dilbert (sometimes)
anybody got any suggestions for other strips?
Posted by: steve s | January 23, 2006 8:54 AM
In its own over-the-top way, I thought the recent series of Rudy Park strips about ID (The "Scones-Monkey Trial") was fun. (I read it in the NYT online version.)
Posted by: Thinker | January 23, 2006 9:00 AM
Wiley makes it a habbit to go after self-publishers. Must be scary to realize that a bunch of young people are getting ready to destroy the entire framework that you built your career on...
Though the comic is really true about your average, "Me and My Cat" style blogging. And I will give Wiley that.
Posted by: Frito | January 23, 2006 9:01 AM
I do think these strips are mildly funny, at least.
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January 23, 2006 9:13 AM
Have you seen User Friendly for 1/23/06?
Posted by: humblehumanist | January 23, 2006 9:29 AM
steve s:
Yes, THIS, although the last week or so has been a bit patchy because they've had blogger trouble. Do the archives.
Posted by: chris | January 23, 2006 9:32 AM
"Wiley makes it a habbit to go after self-publishers. Must be scary to realize that a bunch of young people are getting ready to destroy the entire framework that you built your career on..."
Oh, I doubt that he's scared. Self-publishers are a threat to nobody, although certainly the more interesting bloggers will graduate to being legitimately published. Look at (the original) Wonkette. And who knows, while PZ has his hands full teaching and doing research, maybe he'll become the next Dawkins or something and start writing general interest books about squid and evolution.
When people say things like "young people are getting ready to destroy the entire framework that you built your career on" I immediately think of the 20-something dot-com CEOs circa 1999...
Posted by: Jonathan Badger | January 23, 2006 9:41 AM
Nothing to do with the post......you were hunting for a copy of Richard Dawkins's recent programmes on Channel 4 recently. I'm told you can get them here
http://www.uknova.com/
but I haven't checked yet.
Posted by: potentilla | January 23, 2006 10:07 AM
[spelling Nazi] Well, as long as you're not feeling oppressed (with two "p"s), that's OK then. ;) [/spelling Nazi]
Posted by: Steve LaBonne | January 23, 2006 10:29 AM
Other comic strips?
Frazz
Pibgorn (really should be re-named "Drusilla," but...)
both on comicsdotcom
fusilier
James 2:24
Posted by: fusilier | January 23, 2006 10:31 AM
Now you know how the poor Big Oil people feel.
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January 23, 2006 11:18 AM
anybody got any suggestions for other strips?
Just avoid Dilbert, Johnny Hart, Sally Forth, Wee Pals, and, especially Mallard Fillmore, and you should be fine.
Posted by: george cauldron | January 23, 2006 11:23 AM
Yeah, I already avoid those and more. It's harder to find good ones than avoid bad ones. Rudy Park, someone mentioned, I like a little bit, despite the fact that it's really really derivative of Bloom County, and poorly drawn. User Friendly would also be better but the guy doesn't even have Scott Adams's artistic talent, and that's really saying something.
Posted by: steve s | January 23, 2006 12:11 PM
Other comics - Sylvia, Rhymes with Orange.
Posted by: Buffalo Gal | January 23, 2006 3:25 PM
A lot of people here will probably like The Perry Bible Fellowship. For other online comics you won't find in newspapers, you can browse through Keenspot or The Webcomics List. A lot of the strips are aimed at an adolescent audience, but a many of them aren't.
Posted by: pdf23ds | January 24, 2006 9:14 AM
cartoon, seen on a cube near me:
image is just of two dogs, one is talking to the other.
Caption: "I used to blog but I've gone back to pointless incessant barking."
It very nearly made me quit posting...I've got better things to do with my time or so I am told.
Posted by: greensmile | January 24, 2006 1:17 PM